When we study, quantify and interpret so many of our words and actions in an eternal search for meaning and intentions, it’s only natural to want to track our emojis too. (If I was sending this to you in a Gmail chat, you would see a heart fuse together, right itself and then glow red.) With texting and other modern communications where space is at a premium, like Twitter, we – as a (digital) society – increasingly find ourselves content to receive the following response: “<3”. (Why there’s a bandit emoticon, I’ll never know, but there just is.) Of course, the emojis I use vary depending on the device or software at hand, my audience and the message I want to express at the time.įrom cave paintings to logos to emoticons and emojis, it’s been a long journey, but visual communication has been a constant tool in the history of human communication. Otherwise, the thumbs up, conveying “Yes!” is on the more practical side of my repertoire. What exactly I’m supposed to convey when I use it, I don’t know, but I have been known to use it when I’m in a good mood. It waves its sword around and then disappears in a cloud of smoke. Inexplicably, my favorite Skype emoji is the ninja.
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